I'm familiar with anti-feminist threads being posted four times a year on average.

Are you talking about the tweet? I don't know the context. I read the article in the tweet and generally agree with the idea. Does that make me a bigot? Or does not agreeing with it make one a bigot? I don't know.

Supporting the kind of "correlation equals causation" feminism that van Rossum supports makes you a bigot in practice, I think. Because of the kind of politics that feminist activist in The West generally want. And van Rossum seems to support that.

Several of the items on that numbered list boil down to "go out of your way to support feminism instead of treating all people equally or based on merit". I consider that to be bullshit. Plus the list pushes typical cliché falsehoods like "women are paid less than men due to institutional sexism instead of their life choices." A man not being a supporter of modern feminism does not automatically make him a misogynist, and any suggestion to the contrary is misandry.

Several of the items on that numbered list boil down to "go out of your way to support feminism instead of treating all people equally or based on merit". I consider that to be . Plus the list pushes typical cliché falsehoods like "women are paid less than men due to institutional sexism instead of their life choices."

Yeah, that's especially ironic if you consider how stereotypically "meritocratic" van Rossum's career has been. He was hired by Google, I think mainly to work on The App Engine, which was written in Python, or at least had a Python API. Then he quit to join DropBox while they were in their early phase. All the while having a family. Imagine the kind of money of financial guarantees the guy probably had for him to quit Google for DropBox in that situation. What a hypocryte.

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A man not being a supporter of modern feminism does not automatically make him a misogynist, and any suggestion to the contrary is misandry.

I mean, the man created Python. With those kinds of mental defects, it's no wonder his opinions on other aspects of life are similarly warped. You kind of just shake your head and move on. In this specific case, use tabs for indentation in Python files to spite the greater Python community .

I think Python is probably the best dynamic scripting language today from a pragmatic standpoint. But their "benevolent dictator" is not so benevolent anymore. It's a good case for democracy, or rather, meritocracy. If Linus Torvalds went off the rails like this, he would want the community to fire him

Common online debate has one functional purpose: to re-affirm one's own views while humiliating the other party. There is no desire to learn more about the other party, unless it is useful in mocking them, and there is no desire to reflect on one's own views. In simple words, it's juvenile. Case in point: our discussion.

You've done a terribly poor job of informing. I know more from von Rossum from a quick search than your entire post history in this thread.

Are you bitter that von Rossum is a feminist in the tech world? Are you upset that he dares try and get women involved in software development? Are you angered he asked for questions from women at a Python convention?

I only know you 1) don't like him 2) are upset by his tweet. That's the only information you've provided.